Sean Noel Bonney (21 May 1969 – 13 November 2019) was an English poet born in Brighton and brought up in the north of England. He lived in London and, from 2015 up until the time of his death, in Berlin.[1] He was married to the poet Frances Kruk.[2] Charles Bernstein published poet William Rowe's obituary for Bonney in US online magazine Jacket2,[3] as well as releasing his own poem The Death of Sean Bonney.[4] Detailed notes to Bonney's poetics by Jacob Bard-Rosenberg are featured on the Poetry Foundation website.[5] The Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry has published a special edition on Bonney.[6]
His publications include Blade Pitch Control Unit (2005), Baudelaire in English (2008), Document (2009), The Commons (2011), Happiness: Poems After Rimbaud (2011), Letters Against the Firmament (2015), and Our Death (2019).